Getting to know Google TV involves familiarisation with 80 buttons on Sony’s remote control, compared to just three on the recently launched Apple TV.
The extra 77 buttons, plus function-key combinations, sum up how, in trying to combine a full w…
What Acer’s clear.fi does is, unfortunately for their marketing people, not easy to explain clearly. We took a shot at doing so when Acer first announced it in May, and on Friday it was JT Wang, Acer chairman’s turn at the world’s num…
“I’m going to wait for Apple to release a smaller version of the iPad, then I’ll buy one”. I hear this a lot from people who feel that a smaller size would be better for reading eBooks and keeping things organized. Steve Jobs, A…
It's Friday and that means its time to lock you away inside one of the many puzzle roo…
Results from Facebook pages will soon begin appearing in Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia. Yandex.ru will also get a Facebook widget on its homepage.
It’s another example of search engines gaining access to the growing trove of informa…
A computer virus has infected more than 10,000 machines and directed them to connect with and attempt to overwhelm online forums critical of the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party, security researchers said on Thursday.
The resulting denial-of-service …
A very creative take on the Halloween theme,
Shock your friends, disturb your mother, and make them think you've become the living de…
As an individual who has recently been put to a considerable amount of grief simply to provide my quarterly gas-meter reading to my power company in order that they could then calculate how much I owed them, I can’t wait for the day when a smart mete…
The brain is the most complex biological structure known and, when one considers its size in relation to the plethora of functions that it performs, one quickly realises that the performance of even the most complex microprocessor architectures that ha…
Research In Motion revealed their newest BlackBerry smartphone this morning. The BlackBerry Bold 9780 will be the first in the Bold family to use the company's new BlackBerry OS 6 software, combining their new fluid navigation with the company&#…
With less than a week to go until a court showdown between Oracle and SAP in Oakland, California, Larry Ellison has turned up the rhetorical heat.
As we said a couple of days ago, it will be hard to stop the Oracle CEO having his say, whatever efforts …
For more than a year, Yahoo has been talking about two things that will help it stop losing users’ time to rivals including Google and Microsoft: making Yahoo core services work better and partnering with clear winners in adjacent web offerings s…
Six phone models and 20 months after they joined forces, the smartphone alliance between Asus, the Taiwanese computer maker, and Garmin, the US global positioning device company, is over – at least in its original form.
The two companies on Tuesday a…
Is Britain still an attractive place to invest? Do Siemens’ trains breach Channel tunnel safety rules and will London come to a standstill when the latest strike hits the Underground network?